I meet Barbara when I taught at Sisters this year. Such beautiful work. This reminds me of a Charlie Harper print.
Category Archives: art quilts
Singing in the rain.
I am home from Houston and so excited to be here. George and I went to the lake to walk in the RAIN! It was beautiful, refreshing and the colors in the landscape looked so crisp. We were in doggy heaven. I thought I would share with those of you who were not able to…
Chicago School of Fusing PatternWorks Houston 2011
Living the life of a traveling sales man. Laura and I are having a fun time here in Houston at the international Quilt Market. Quilt Market is the wholeside of the quilting industry. We have our booth all set up and are seeing so many people. This is really all about networking in the community.…
Crazy Quilters
I am dying silk/rayon velvet. This stuff is incredible. I think that every crazy quilter is going to want some of this. I will only have these delicious fabrics at the shows that I vend at, since each piece is individually dyed they are all one of a kind and just too hard to picture…
Fermilab Art Quilts Exhibit–Artist Monday
I am part of the SAQAIL/WI group that has put on an exhibit that will run at the famous Fermilab in Batavia IL. If you live in the area this is a wonderful opportunity to visit the facility and then see some great art pieces. That’s my piece in the lower bottom right – Shimmering…
Yellow Dandelions
I am once again offering one of my small art quilts on EBAY. You can view the listing here for Yellow Dandelions. I hope you will think about treating yourself this month and find a new home for “Yellow Dandelions”, or this would make a great gift for that special someone for Christmas.
Bead it Like you Mean it
My friend Lyric Kinard has just published a very enjoyable and educational new video called, “Bead it like you Mean it”I just finished watching the whole thing and was truly captivated. Lyric is light hearted and charming in this video just like she is in person and it made it very enjoyable to watch her…
Wendy Butler Berns on line classes
The first two Wendy Butler Berns online courses have now been launched on the Craftsy.com website….. the third course “Art Quilting 101” will be available in early November. Here is a link to the promos for the first two courses and each have several segments one can watch onlinehttp://www.craftsy.com/class/Art-Quilting-Pictorial-Techniques/38?d=34255http://www.craftsy.com/class/Machine-Quilting-Free-Motion-More/37?d=34158please pass on the information to everyone…
Basic Fusing III
Putting it all together.Once I have all my design elements cut out and ready to assemble I will begin to fuse things in place.Remember we put our background fabric that had fusible all over it on the back of the fabric back on a piece of release paper? Now since it is sitting on the…
Basic Fusing II Star Lilies
Let’s get started with our project my pattern “Star Lilies”. Star Lilies was inspired by the Star Lilies in my garden. I love them and they come in such bright and wonderful colors unlike regular day Lilies that I also have in my garden. Star Lilies 14” x 16” These are the basic tools I…
Basic Fusing
Recently on this blog I asked for input from you readers. What I heard from several people was I should do more demo’s with more pictures, talk about inspiration and just share more and have lengthier posts. So here we go, I have turned over a new leaf and will be posting more pictures, demo’s…
Mark Lipinski
Hey check it out. I am going to be on the phone tomorrow with Mark Lipinski. Tune in to www.toginet.com and click on the listen live button on the page and you will be able to hear the show as it takes place. Who knows what will happen with Mark, you don’t want to miss…